The Ancient World Prehistoric Eras to 600 CE

A

Adrianople, Battle of (378 c.e.)
Aeneid
Aeschylus
Aesop
African city-states
African religious traditions
Ahab and Jezebel
Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Akkad
Alcibiades
Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Alexandrian literature
Ambrose
Andes: Neolithic
Antonine emperors
Anyang
apocalypticism, Jewish and
Christian
Apostles, Twelve
Arabia, pre-Islamic
Aramaeans
Archaic Greece
Arianism
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Ark of the Covenant
Armenia
Artaxerxes
Aryan invasion
Ashoka
Assyria
Athanasius
Athenian predemocracy
Augustine of Hippo
Aurelius, Marcus
Axial Age and cyclical
theories
B
Babylon, early period
Babylon, later periods
Bactria
Bamiyan Valley
Ban Biao (Pan Piao)
Baruch
Basil the Great
Benedict
Bhagavad Gita
Bible translations
Boethius
Book of the Dead
Boudicca
Brendan the Navigator
Buddhism in China
Buddhist councils
Byblos
Byzantine-Persian wars
C
Caesar, Augustus
Caesar, Julius
Cambyses II
Cappadocians
Caracalla, Edict of (212 c.e.)
Carthage
caste
Cato, Marcus Porcius (the Younger)
cave paintings
Celts
Ceylon
Chandragupta II
Chang’an
choregic poetry
Choson
Christian Dualism (Gnosticism)
Christianity, early
Chrysostom, John
Cicero
classical art and architecture, Greek
Classical Period, Greek
Cleisthenes
Clement of Alexandria
Code of Justinian
Confucian Classics
Confucianism as a state ideology
Confucius
Constantine the Great
Constantinople
Coptic Christian Church
cuneiform
Cyclades
Cyril of Alexandria
Cyrus II
D
Damascus and Aleppo
Daoism (Taoism)
Darius I
David
Delphic oracle
Demosthenes
Desert Fathers and Mothers
Deuteronomy
Dharma Sutras
Diadochi
Diocletian
Dravidians
Druids and Picts
Duke of Zhou (Chou)
Dunhuang (Tun-huang)
E
Ebla
Edessa
Egeria
Egypt, culture and religion
Elam
Eleusis
Ephesus and Chalcedon, Councils of
Ephrem
Epicureanism
Era of Division (China)
Essenes
Esther, book of
Ethiopia, ancient
Etruscans
Euripides
Eusebius
Ezana
F
Fa Xian (Fa-hsien)
Fertile Crescent
First Americans
Flavian emperors
food gatherers and producers,
prehistory
G
Gandhara
Ganjin
Gaul
Gautama Buddha
Georgia, ancient
Gilgamesh
Gracchi
Great Wall of China
Greek Church
Greek city-states
Greek colonization
Greek drama
Greek mythology and pantheon
Greek oratory and rhetoric
Gregory the Great
Guangwu (Kuang-wu)
Gupta Empire
gymnasium and athletics
H
Hadrian
Hagia Sophia
Han dynasty
Hannibal
Han Wudi (Han Wu-ti)
Helena
Helen of Troy
Hellenistic art
Hellenization
heresies
Herodotus, Thucydides, and
Xenophon
Herods
Hesiod
Hezekiah
hieroglyphics
Hindu philosophy
Hippocrates, Galen, and the
Greek physicians
Hittites
Homeric epics
Hundred Schools of Philosophy
Huns
Hurrians
Hyksos
I
imperial cult, Roman
Indo-Europeans
Indus civilization
Israel and Judah
J
Jainism
Jerome
Jesus (Christ) of Nazareth
Jewish revolts
Job and theodicy
John the Baptist
Jomon culture
Josephus, Flavius
Josiah
Judah ha-Nasi
Judaism, early (heterodoxies)
Judges
Julian the Apostate
Julio-Claudian emperors
Justinian I
K
Kama Sutra
Kanishka
Kautilya
Khosrow I
Kija
Kingdom of God
King’s Highway and Way of the Sea
Kush
Kushan Empire
L
Laozi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuangzi
(Chuang Tzu)
late barbarians
Latin Church
Legalism
legionaries
Leonidas
Leo the Great
libraries, ancient
Libya
Linear A and B
Liu Bang (Liu Pang)
Lo-lang
Lu, Empress
Lucian
Luoyang (Loyang)
lyric poetry
M
Ma Yuan
Maccabees
Mahabharata
Maotun (Mao-t’un)
Marathon, Battle of (490 b.c.e.)
Marcellinus, Ammianus
Mari
Marius and Sulla
martyrologies
Mauryan Empire
Maximus the Confessor
Maya: Classic Period
Maya: Preclassic Period
Medes, Persians, Elamites
Megasthenes
Mencius
Meng Tian (Meng T’ien)
Meroë
Mesoamerica: Archaic and
Preclassic Periods
Mesoamerica: Classic Period
messianism
Middle Kingdom, Egypt
migration patterns of the Americas
Milan, Edict of (313 c.e.)
Minoans
Mishnah
Mittani
Mohenjo-Daro
monasticism
Moses
Mozi (Mo Tzu)
Mycenae
mystery cults
N
Nabataeans
Native Americans: chronologies
and peoples
Native Americans: regional
adaptations
xi
Nebuchadnezzar II Pompeii and Herculaneum
Neolithic age Pompey
Neoplatonism Pontius Pilate
Nero pre-Socratic philosophy
Nestorius and the Nestorian prophets
Church Psalms
New Comedy Pseudepigrapha and the Apocrypha
New Kingdom, Egypt Ptolemies
Nicaea, Council of pyramids of Giza
Nineveh Pyrrhus
Nubia Pythagoras
O Q
Odovacar Qin (Ch’in) dynasty
Old Kingdom, Egypt Qumran
Olmecs
Olympic Games
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Origen
Ostracism
Ostrogoths and Lombards
P
paideia
paleoanthropology
Paleolithic age
Palmyra
Panathenaic Festival
Parthenon
Pataliputra
Patriarchs, biblical
patricians
Patrick
Paul
Pax Romana
Peisistratus
Peloponnesian War
Pericles
persecutions of the church
Persepolis, Susa, and Ecbatana
Persian invasions
Persian myth
Petronius
pharaoh
Pharisees
Philip of Macedon
Philo
Phoenician colonies
pilgrimage
Platonism
polis
R
Ramayana
Ramses I
Ramses II
Ravenna
Red Eyebrow Rebellion
religious inclinations, prehistory
Roman Empire
Roman golden and silver ages
Roman historians
Roman pantheon and myth
Roman poetry
Rome: buildings, engineers
Rome: decline and fall
Rome: founding
Rome: government
Rosetta Stone
S
Sadducees
Sakyas
San and Khoi tribes
Sanskrit
Sappho
Sargon of Akkad
Sassanid Empire
Saul
scribes
Sea Peoples
Second Sophistic
Seleucid Empire
Seneca
Septimus Severus
Servant Songs of Isaiah
Shang dynasty
Shintoism
Silk Road
Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch’ien)
Simeon the Stylite
Sinai, Mount
Six Schools of classical Hindu
philosophy
Socrates
Soga clan
Sogdians
Solomon
Solon
sophism
Sophocles
Spartacus
Stoicism
Suiko
Sumer
Sunzi (Sun Tzu)
Syracuse
Syriac culture and church
T
Talmud
Tantrism
Teotihuacán
Tetrarchy
Thebes
Themistocles
Theodoric
Theodosius I
Theravada and Mahayana
Buddhism
Three Kingdoms, China
Three Kingdoms, Korea
Toba (T’o-pa) dynasty
Torah
Trajan
Tripitaka
Triumvirate
Troy
Trung sisters
Turabdin
U
Ugarit
Ulfilas
Ur
V
Vardhamana Mahavira
Vedas
Vedic age
Vercingetorix
Visigoth kingdom of
Spain
W
Wang Mang
Wei Man (Wiman)
Wen and Wu
wisdom literature
X
Xerxes
Xia (Hsia) dynasty
Xiang Yu (Hsiang Yu)
Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu)
Xunzi (Hsun Tzu)
Y
Yamato clan and state
Yao, Shun, and Yu
Yayoi culture
Yellow Emperor (Huangdi
or Huang Ti)
Yellow Turban Rebellion
Yemen
Yuezhi (Yueh-chih)
Z
Zakkai, Yohanan ben
Zhang Qian (Chang Ch’ien)
Zhou (Chou) dynasty
Zoroastrianism

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